Randolph Paul Runyon, recently retired after 35 years of teaching French at Miami University of Ohio, is the author of eleven other books since 1981, including a commentary on the Fables (In La Fontaine's Labyrinth: A Thread Through the Fables) and the first genuinely complete English translation of the Contes et Nouvelles en Vers (La Fontaine's Complete Tales in Verse: An Illustrated and Annotated Translation). In these and other books he draws out the "intratextuality" of literary collections such as La Fontaine's Fables and Tales, showing how the individual parts of such collections fit tog...